politics Hegseth's broker tried to buy millions in defense stocks before Iran attack Ellsworth Toohey
science fiction Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy Thom Dunn
ted cruz A Goddard Space Flight Center scientist explains why Ted Cruz's NASA threat is ridiculous Mark Frauenfelder
UFOs Former Senator Harry Reid: Lockheed has crashed UFO debris but the Pentagon wouldn't let him see David Pescovitz
police New Pentagon IG report finds that police don't need all those hand-me-downs of military hardware Thom Dunn
politics Biden could save U.S. taxpayers $2.6 billion by halting Trump's stupid border wall on January 20, says Army Corps Xeni Jardin
blackwater Blackwater founder Erik Prince used ex-spies to infiltrate liberal groups for Project Veritas Thom Dunn
corruption Defense contractors gleefully report record earnings in divisions that bid on "classified" projects, the fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow
security Independent evaluation of "aggression detection" microphones used in schools and hospitals finds them to be worse than useless Cory Doctorow
elections Elizabeth Warren calls for a zero-emissions military, serviced by zero-emissions contractors Cory Doctorow
cnn drops Air tanker drops are often useless for fighting wildfires, but politicians order them because they make good TV Cory Doctorow
